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An Actor's Medicine

by Mario A. Campanaro

An Actor’s Medicine

by Mario A. Campanaro

Let’s get personal… As actors, it is not uncommon to have an extremely sensitive and even empathic instrument. We willingly live our lives experiencing the deepest levels of the human experience. We expose our deepest selves to the world, not only because of choice but also because of a divine calling. We are messengers of what is hidden, speakers of what is unsaid, un-doers of what is doctrinated, and, hopefully, we are the shifters of human consciousness towards that which is good and true.

However, there are moments in our work when this can feel burdensome. It can go so far as to manifest to the point where we suffocate in our own despair. We keep giving and forget the need to nurture ourselves. So we try to reach out to mentors and loved ones, hoping they will say the one thing that will help remedy our experience. Though the intention to help is there, we often don’t get that shift in our feelings that we crave.

So, as highly sensitive individuals, what do we do? We have to be our own medicine! This is OUR journey, and the accumulation of our life experiences has brought us to this moment. Just as we do not viscerally understand what’s going on in someone else’s life, it is just as impossible for anyone to understand what’s going on in our own.

So, as artists, what are we to do when we feel lost and broken? We stop right where we are! This is a sign that there is too much going on in and around us. It’s a sign that we need to unplug and recalibrate from a world that has become unnaturally fast, toxic, and chaotic with inhuman expectations. These feelings are a divine gift that notify us that something is off, and it’s time to go within and reconnect to our center.

It’s a crucial moment to make the changes we need for our body, mind, emotions, and spirit to heal so we can continue our very special path. We have forgotten that we are not superhuman. We are not robots. We are human beings who require time and space to get in touch with our silence and peace in order to transmute our deficit into something of a higher vibration, so we can continue our work.

We forget that this IS part of our work. This IS part of our process. This IS part of our growth. This IS part of our essentials. THIS is our powerful, non-toxic, holistically hopeful, habit-forming medicine!